I know I’ve mentioned my big pile of scraped pictures, probably when I’ve told you about how it’s a great source for collage material. It’s at least 2 FEET tall now, and maybe the best thing about that stack is that I often rediscover nice pictures that shouldn’t be in there! Looking at them now, I don’t know what I was thinking when I tossed them aside as losers!

All three of these cats are rescues and each has some nice, particularly spontaeous moves in it. The last two were drawn mostly with my eyes closed – I wanna do more of that!

Here’s a morning bloom, to add some cheer to an otherwise dreary winter’s day. Perhaps where you are, the sun is shining. Hope so. It’s too early for me to have spring fever!

I must assemble almost 600 scans of my flower pictures (4 per) before I can start sifting them into virtual albums on my website’s digital reader. Since my version of Photoshop can’t merge scans automatically, it’s all on me. But I’m getting good at it doing it manually – and I’m enjoying seeing these pictures so intimately. Feels like I’m meeting ’em for the first time!

Look hard (or turn this upside down), and you’ll see this one was painted right over top of a failed cat! Here, I’ll flip it for you so you don’t have to:

See him in there now? GEEEEZ, doe it look better this way – – – AGAIN? WHY do so many of my pictures look as good or better upside down??!?@? Which way do you think it should go?

I guess the pursuit of creativity is exasperating most of the time, right?

After all of my Photoshop fussing with this picture yesterday, trying out alternatives for a clever, fun finish, I decided upon the one that as it turns out, may be too much of a forced fit. Well phooey – it’s hard to tell. The end result is so far from what I had hoped for. Maybe it’s okay. Maybe okay is good enough, but I’m going to try it again, this time with a cat that’s not so fussy and out of character, laid down in swift, suggestive strokes like the rest of the picture.

I really want this little guy to look like the end of a tree branch at first, so it’s only recognized as what it is a few moments later. If I manage it, I’ll check in again later.